Reply #170: Nicely done, redqueen.

[Richardo]

:patriot:

Despite the fevered caterwauling of many posters, the motivations behind these superficially similar speeches could not be more distinct. One guy was selling a knee-jerk response to a terrorist attack, the other a tempered, thoughtful mop-up and shit-shoveling operation to extricate us from the results of the first guy's blood-soaked incompetence.

The first guy was a war monger of the first order -- his only tool a sledgehammer, the world a vast collection of thumbtacks. The new guy is taking dozens of strategic implications into account and has articulated his vision for the best way out.